What Happens When I Lose My Religion 18. And these went into Micah’s home and took the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then the priest said, “what are you doing?” 19. And they said to him, “Hold your peace, lay your hand over your mouth, and go with us, and be […]
Grown Folk Conversations – Part 2 Measuring the impact of spiritual immaturity. When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child … but when I grew up, I put away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11 New Conversation for a New Reality No one, absolutely no one, comes to the Lord […]
Grown Folk Conversations – Part 1 9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10. But, when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of […]
Living “Off the Chain“ 1. The Word came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan, commander of the imperial guard, had released him at Ramah. He had found Jeremiah bound in chains among all the captives from Jerusalem and Judah who were being carried into exile to Babylon. 2. When the commander of the guard found Jeremiah, […]
Prayer that Pleases God 40. And when He was at the place, He said to them, “Pray that you enter not into temptation.” 41. And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and kneeled down, and prayed, 42. Saying, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me: nevertheless, not My Will, but Yours be […]
Does God Hear Me? 9. To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable. 10. Two men went up to the Temple to pray: one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector. 11. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed; “God, I thank You that I am […]
There is Power in Prayer Part 1 And He spoke a parable unto them to this end, that men ought to always pray, and not to faint. Luke 18:1 The Business of Prayer Many of us consider prayer to be a Church ritual or some liturgical exercise that we have a duty to perform. In […]
Do You Know What’s Good For You? And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 So What do you know? Some say that information is power. Some say that it is not what you know but who you […]
21. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them. 22. And the Lord God said, “Behold, the man is become as one of Us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat, […]
When Mercy Goes to Work 22. And behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto Him saying, “Have Mercy on me, O Lord, Thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.” 26. But He answered and said, “It is not meet to take the children’s bread and […]